SCOTTISH Environment and Protection Agency (SEPA) has received a complaint about more potential water pollution near to the Viking Energy wind farm. https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2024/12/30/significant-impact-watercourses-sepa-says/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHfl8xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHc88CrQJnjqnjFvgLBU-72-GY3qs8JDF9UmiHYncg8_bEutAUBGdF1Zq6w_aem_7qu2FlEfnG2RsC8ufcnTuA
Costly resolution Will Kate Forbes MSP be making a New Year resolution to inform voters of the SNP plan to repay the four-fold increase of £130 billion on the debt to decarbonise Scottish homes? If repaid over 20 years, that is an annual capital debt repayment of £6.5bn or Read more
t was in 2020 when Nigel Dodman and Sandy Boulanger first received a letter through their door telling them of the plans for 31 220m-high wind turbines on land a few hundred yards from their home near New Radnor in the Radnorshire hills. Mr Dodman immediately began looking into the Read more
Yesterday’s Scotsman column by Chris Mclauchlan declares “there is a buzz around the decision to locate the proposed UK Energy HQ in Aberdeen”. He says around 81 per cent of people feel positive about this proposal but, further in the article, doubts cannily start to emerge about funding. However, my Read more
To all our supporters. Have a great Xmas!
I REALLY do like Elizabeth Marshall’s choice of words (Letters, December 18): “Massive intrusive and intermittent energyproducing wind farms with their associated pylons dominating the landscape” and her anger at “building huge unsustainable radiation-emitting batteries”. Once upon a time our electricity was produced by reliable coal, gas and nuclear with Read more
A new wind farm proposed near Inveraray has 22 turbines so tall that Lochgilphead Community Council is following the planning application as it is claimed the turbines will be seen “for miles”. Eredine Wind Farm, a project by Renewables UK Onshore Wind Ltd (RWE), is situated between Furnace on Loch Read more
Dear Prime Minister, I was for many years a Labour Party member, and during some of that time I was a committed activist working hard for the party. However, I didn’t vote Labour at the last general election, and your performance as Prime Minister to date has amply vindicated that Read more